Ocean acidification has been studied in relation to marine animals with calcium carbonate shells. Oysters, sea butterflies, shrimp – all are affected by acidification when their outer shells don’t develop properly. According to this article, ocean acidification has increased by 25-30% since the beginning of the Industrial Revolution. A new study published in Nature Climate Change…

When one thinks of marine life, especially when it comes to endangered marine life, the mind naturally turns to the poster children of conservation: polar bears, whales, dolphins. The big guys. Maybe some of us think of our favorite fish – tuna, for example, or salmon. Not many spare a thought for the tiny shelled…

Massive ocean krill swarms – hundreds of millions of tons of them – are a keystone of one of the great planetary life cycles. A new Australian study published in the journal Nature Climate Change called Risk maps for Antarctic krill under projected Southern Ocean acidification, looks at the threshold at which krill – specifically, their…